The loan waivers act only as a quick-fix to ease farmers’ distress in the absence of coordinated and sustained reforms. Unless the real issues that push the farmers into debt crisis are identified and addressed, the loan waiver solution will only serve as a trump card in the hands of politicians and pose challenges like undermining public spending, price hikes, credit indiscipline and a moral hazard.

There is a wave of misconceptions circulating around about the drawbacks of crossbred cattle. The glorifications of Indian native cattle breeds, without any proper scientific foundations or data, added fuel to this facade.

India’s annual milk production per cow is only 1,310 kg, whereas the world average is 2,200 kg. It is desperately incompetent when compared with the 9,314 kg of the US and 10,035 kg of Israel, India’s major competitors.